Video surveillance has played a crucial role in identifying criminals, intruders and all general threats not just to our workplace, but to our homes as well. According to American-based global information company, IHS, the demand for video surveillance will be growing steadily in 2014 with an expected global market growth at over 12 percent. Due to the many different products, geographic regions and end user sectors within the video surveillance market, some of these markets will grow much faster than the average market.

One country that is seeing a growing acceptance of cloud computing within the telecom infrastructure is China. The massive demand for civil video surveillance makes for a great opportunity as a cloud-based solution would prove to be an essential choice in growing the market in the country. Popular among the residential and Small-to-Medium Business markets in order to monitor what goes on at home or at work, cloud-based video surveillance can also be integrated with cloud-based health care and support video calls in order to make the best out of using mobile terminals. At the same time, being an IT solution allows cloud-based video surveillance to be more readily accepted by the public and by getting the right mix of product and security features, there is no doubt that the players involved in the market will be able to reach out to the billions of potential users in China.

FingerTec has catered to the needs of developing an access control software with Ingress. The software has a wide range of features that are key to ensuring the safety of your premises, including real-time monitoring, database administration and report management. Ingress comes bundled with the controller, Ingressus, and is also capable of seamlessly integrating its access control functions with alarm monitoring and other intrusion detection devices.

Ingress is also compatible with IP cameras and is integrated with the Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS) provider and FingerTec sister company, EpiCamera. Providing “surveillance from the clouds”, EpiCamera’s task is to bring IP cameras to life by capturing images from your monitored site and combine it with its hosting services via cloud computing. This would allow users to access and view the captured images anywhere, anytime through web access on the EpiCamera website. By using it in tandem with Ingress, the level in access control grows stronger as Ingress will be able to automatically record any abnormal activity that takes place under its Monitoring tab and allow administrators the chance to access the footage for viewing.

For more information about Ingress and EpiCamera, kindly drop us an email at info@fingertec.com or visit the EpiCamera website by clicking here.